Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
ROALD DAHLI think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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